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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4322 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4322

  To clarify the prohibition on affiliation under the Mentor-Protege 
 Program of the Department of Defense, to amend the Small Business Act 
to improve cooperation between the mentor-protege programs of the Small 
 Business Administration and the Department of Defense, and for other 
                               purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 2016

Mr. Knight (for himself and Ms. Judy Chu of California) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, 
and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL

 
  To clarify the prohibition on affiliation under the Mentor-Protege 
 Program of the Department of Defense, to amend the Small Business Act 
to improve cooperation between the mentor-protege programs of the Small 
 Business Administration and the Department of Defense, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Mentor-Protege Cooperation Reform 
Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE MENTOR-PROTEGE PROGRAM OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              DEFENSE ON AFFILIATION.

    Section 831 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 1991 (Public Law 101-510; 104 Stat. 1607; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
            ``(1) prior to the approval of that agreement, the 
        Administrator of the Small Business Administration had made no 
        finding of affiliation between the mentor firm and the protege 
        firm;'';
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
                (3); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following 
                new paragraph:
            ``(2)(A) the Administrator of the Small Business 
        Administration does not have a current finding of affiliation 
        between the mentor firm and protege firm; or
            ``(B) the Secretary, after considering the regulations 
        promulgated by the Administrator of the Small Business 
        Administration regarding affiliation--
                    ``(i) does not have reason to believe that the 
                mentor firm affiliated with the protege firm; or
                    ``(ii) has received a formal determination of no 
                affiliation between the mentor firm and protege firm 
                from the Administrator after having submitted a 
                question of affiliation to the Administrator; and''; 
                and
            (2) in subsection (n), by amending paragraph (9) to read as 
        follows:
            ``(9) The term `affiliation', with respect to a 
        relationship between a mentor firm and a protege firm, means a 
        relationship described under section 121.103 of title 13, Code 
        of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation).''.

SEC. 3. IMPROVING COOPERATION BETWEEN THE MENTOR-PROTEGE PROGRAMS OF 
              THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              DEFENSE.

    Section 45(b)(4) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657r(b)(4)) 
is amended by striking subparagraph (A) and redesignating subparagraphs 
(B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively.
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